Last night, Senator Warner joined his colleagues in voting to unanimously adoptthe FAA Air Transportation Modernization and Safety Improvement Act. The new FAA bill contains crucial funding to speed the implementation of state-of-the-art air traffic control technology, and it supports critical improvements to the nation's aviation infrastructure.

Working with his colleagues from Virginia and Marlyand, including Senator Jim Webb and Congressman Jim Moran, Senator Warner successfully added $300 million to the FY2011 military construction appropriations bill to specifically address ways to mitigate current and future traffic congestion at Fort Belvoir and Maryland's Bethesda Naval Hospital.